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Sri Lanka's Global Factory Workers: (Un) Disciplined Desires and Sexual Struggles in a Post-Colonial Society book cover

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Sri Lanka's Global Factory Workers (Un) Disciplined Desires and Sexual Struggles in a Post-Colonial Society

By Sandya Hewamanne Copyright 2016
144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge
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In Sri Lanka, the Free Trade Zone (FTZ) employs thousands of unmarried rural women, and their migration has aroused deep anxieties over female morality and ideal conduct. This book focuses on the global factory workers based in the FTZ, and analyzes intersections of gender, class and sexuality by looking at the sexual lives and struggles of the female workers. Exploring the alternative... Read more

1. Global Factory Workers and Forbidden Zones



2. "Secret" Lives of Good Girls: On Romances, Sexualities and Unuttered Desires



3. Romance on the Street: Sexual Banter and Sexual Harassment



4. "Would Good Girls Read Such Filth?" Reading and Writing Sex among Global Factory Workers



5. In the Service of the Nation: Sex, Marriage and Social Mobility in Times of War



6. Guardians of Girls: Policing and Saving Workers in Crises of Love and Sex



7. Man-power Workers, Contract Workers, and Tamil Workers: Sexual Empowerment, from Here to Where?

Biography

Sandya Hewamanne teaches Anthropology at the Department of Sociology, University of Essex, UK. Her research interests include globalization, identity, cultural politics and feminist and post-colonial theory.

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